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DAVID, Jean Pierre (1737 – 1784)

1737 – 1784

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1779 CE

#4303

Dissertation sur les effets du mouvement et du repos dans les maladies chirurgicales.

Includes a description of Pott’s disease, with post-mortem findings, better than Pott’s own account. This is an important early work on the effect of movement and of rest in the treatment of joint conditio…